本科毕业设计-英语论文开题报告电影《撞车》中的种族主义歧视隐喻解读

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题 目 The Interpretation to Criminal Discrimination in the Movie Crash 电影《撞车》中的种族主义歧 视隐喻解读 学 院 外国语学院 专业班级 英语普2012级1班 学生姓名 向粤婷 学号 2012444180 指导教师 张琪

2015 年12月29日 开题报告填写要求 1.开题报告作为毕业设计（论文）答辩委员会对学生答辩资格审查的依据材料之一。此报告应在指导教师指导下，由学生在毕业设计（论文）工作开始后2周内完成，经指导教师签署意见及系主任审查后生效。 2.开题报告内容必须用黑墨水笔工整书写或按教务处统一设计的电子文档标准格式（可从教务处网址上下载）打印，禁止打印在其它纸上后剪贴，完成后应及时交给指导教师签署意见。 3.学生查阅资料的参考文献理工类不得少于10篇，其它不少于12篇（不包括辞典、手册）。 4.“本课题的目的及意义，国内外研究现状分析”至少2000字，其余内容至少1000字。 毕业设计(论文)开题报告 1.本课题的目的及意义，国内外研究现状分析 1. Purpose of this study Crash is a famous film won the Best Film at the 78th Oscar Award. The film was inspired by a real-life incident, and is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. In the film, several characters' stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles. Crash differs from many other films about racism in its rather impartial approach to the issue. Rather than separating the characters into victims and offenders, victims of racism are often shown to be prejudiced themselves in different contexts and situations. Also, racist remarks and actions are often shown to stem from ignorance and misconception rather than a malicious personality. While this is exactly the reason why the author write this thesis. Racism is ubiquitous in America, many researchers have studied the film and wrote many papers about the film. Most of the papers are about how the film acted to eliminate the racial discrimination caused by ignorance and misconception, and finally the characters in the film did it with the misunderstanding was resolved. However, no one discovers the underlying meaning that the rasicm in the film can not be eliminated for itself is a film with racial discrimination. Consequently, based on the theory of metaphor, the author will take all kinds of interpersonal relationships in the film as the research object, then analyze the specific plot and the cultural conflict in the film, finally to explain the underlying meaning of the film-------racial discrimination can not be resolved under the social interpersonal conflict and cultural conflict. This thesis aims to unscramble the racial discrimination in America society through the film Crash, then achieve the purpose that people should face their racism so that they can finally learn to change the situation.

2. Significance of this study It is well known that Crash is a famous and significant film, and it was thought highly of by massive media at home and abroad, so, a lot of researchers write various papers about this film. But no one find the underlying meaning of the film, and use metaphor to unscramble the racial discrimination in the film. While the author find that the creation intention and the essence of the film was not well demonstrated, therefore, it is necessary and significant to write this thesis to reveal the creation intention and the essence of the film. A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two. The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1937) by I. A. Richards describes a metaphor as having two parts: the tenor and the vehicle. The tenor is the subject to which attributes are ascribed. The vehicle is the object whose attributes are borrowed. Moreover, some theorists have suggested that metaphors are not merely stylistic, but that they are cognitively important as well. In Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoffand and Mark Johnson argue that metaphors are pervasive in everyday life, not just in language, but also in thought and action. A common definition of a metaphor can be described as a comparison that shows how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in another important way. They explain how a metaphor is simply understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. The authors also suggest that communication can be viewed as a machine: "Communication is not what one does with the machine, but is the machine itself." (Johnson, Lakoff, 1980). Since metaphors are so important and pervasive in our daily life, there must exist uncountable metaphors in the film Crash. What’s more, no one has studied the metaphors in this movie. Therefore, this thesis will choose some representative plots, and use metaphor to analyze them, and then find out the underlying meaning of the film. Under the underlying meaning, it will definitely reflect that racial discrimination can not be eliminated. In addition, the significance of the study is to analyze and study the representative plots in Crash based on the theory of metaphor and the movie Crash.